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Navajeros Blu-ray Movie  

Severin Films | 1980 | 96 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman

A gang of juvenile delinquents lead by a fifteen-year-old boy named 'Jaro' wrecks havoc in Madrid, Spain. A middle-aged prostitute takes a liking to Jaro and tries to care for him, but Jaro is on a path of self-destruction.

Biography / Crime / Drama / Foreign

El Pico Blu-ray Movie  

Overdose

Severin Films | 1983 | 110 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman

It deals with a duo of inseparable friends turned delinquents named Paco and Urko, together they share drugs. They are forced into street hustling and ever-expanding life of crime. Paco is son of a stiff Guardia Civil Commandant and Urko of an Aberzale Congressman. The protagonists choose to live dangerously and they are forced to take a life of crime to survive and attempt to flee the suburbs of Bilbao.

Drama / Foreign

El Pico 2 Blu-ray Movie  

Severin Films | 1984 | 120 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman

Paco, and his Civil Guard father, relocate to Madrid, where an investigative reporter is determined to find the truth about Paco's involvement in the shooting of a drug dealer back in Bilbao, which lands Paco in a lot of trouble.

Drama

Auntie Lee's Meat Pies Blu-ray Movie  

Limited Edition Slipcover

Vinegar Syndrome | 1992 | 100 min | Rated R | Aug 31, 2021 | Brian Orndorf

Outside the small, one-cop town of Penance, California, Auntie Lee bakes her popular meat pies, with the help of four nubile nieces and the ranch's blood-simple handyman, Larry. The source of the meat for the pies? Men who are passing through, lured to strange deaths by the nieces - Fawn, Coral, Sky, and Magnolia - who smile, show a little skin, and pretend to be playmates. Closing in on the trail of a missing man is a New York private eye, Harold Ivars; plus, the town's cop, Chief Koal, finds Larry's behavior a bit suspicious. Will the cop and the dick bring Auntie Lee's vocation to a grinding halt?

Comedy / Horror

A Dim Valley Blu-ray Movie  

Standard Edition

Altered Innocence | 2021 | 92 min | Not rated | Aug 31, 2021 | Brian Orndorf

A curmudgeonly biologist and his stoner graduate students encounter a group of mysterious backpackers who disrupt their lives in beautiful and surprising ways.

Comedy / Horror / Supernatural

The Tomb of Ligeia Blu-ray Movie  

Kino Lorber | 1964 | 81 min | Not rated | Sep 07, 2021 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

Some years after having buried his beloved wife Ligeia, Verden Fell meets and eventually marries the lovely Lady Rowena. Fell is something of a recluse, living in a small part of a now ruined Abbey with his manservant Kenrick as the only other occupant. He remains infatuated with his late wife and is convinced that she will return to him. While all goes well when first married, he returns to his odd behavior when they return to the Abbey from their honeymoon. The memories of Ligeia continue to haunt him as well as her promise that she would never die...

Drama / Horror / Thriller

Mona Lisa Blu-ray Movie  

Criterion | 1986 | 104 min | Not rated | Sep 14, 2021 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

George is a tough, yet also warmhearted small-time mobster recently released from prison. He agrees to chauffeur Simone, a high-priced prostitute. She enlists him to search for her closest friend, another prostitute named Cathy. During their time together, George slowly falls in love with Simone.

Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Romance

The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover Blu-ray Movie    

Beyond Genres #09

Umbrella Entertainment | 1989 | 124 min | Rated ACB: R18+ | Apr 07, 2021 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

The wife of an oafish restaurant owner becomes bored with her husband and considers an affair with a regular patron.

Comedy / Crime / Drama / Romance / Dark humor / Erotic

Cold War Creatures: Four Films from Sam Katzman Blu-ray Movie  

Arrow | 1955-1957 | 4 Movies | 293 min | Not rated | Sep 14, 2021 | Jeffrey Kauffman

No synopsis for this title.

Crime / Fantasy / Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller

Creature with the Atom Brain Blu-ray Movie  

Arrow | 1955 | 69 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman

Several years earlier gangster Frank Buchanan was deported to his native Italy through the efforts of law enforcement authorities and rival gangsters who inform on him. While in Europe he meets scientist Wilhelm Steigg, who has perfected a method of reanimating dead people and controlling their behavior with oral commands. Buchanan underwrites Steigg's experiments and uses his technology to wreak revenge on his enemies. Unfortunately radioactive poisoning is a by-product of the process, and authorities use radiation detecting devices like Geiger counters to pinpoint the source of the sinister plot...

Crime / Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller

The Werewolf Blu-ray Movie  

Arrow | 1956 | 79 min | Rated PG | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman

Duncan Marsh, a mild-mannered man, finds himself lost in a remote village called Mountaincrest. His mind is clouded, but he learns later that Emory Forrest and Morgan Chambers, two scientists, injected him with a special serum containing irradiated wolf's blood when he was suffering from amnesia after being in a car accident. The wolf's blood, for unknown reasons, changed the previously gentlemanlike Duncan into a vicious, bloodthirsty werewolf...

Horror / Sci-Fi

Zombies of Mora Tau Blu-ray Movie  

Arrow | 1957 | 69 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman

American tycoon George Harrison, his beautiful wife, Mona, and deep-sea diver Jeff Clark are off the coast of Africa hoping to salvage a fortune in diamonds at the bottom of the sea near the voodoo-haunted island of Mora Tau, and are joined by an English girl named Jan. The treasure is reported to be guarded by Zombies, walking dead-men doomed to roam the earth until men stop trying to find the sacred treasure. Here, they are walking the sea-bottom, and there is a large conflict of interest between them and the treasure-seekers...

Horror / Thriller

The Giant Claw Blu-ray Movie  

Arrow | 1957 | 74 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman

When electronics engineer Mitch MacAfee spots a UFO as "big as a battleship", from his plane, the Air Force scrambles planes to investigate. However, nothing shows up on radar, and one of the jets is lost during the action. MacAfee is regarded as a dangerous crackpot until other incidents and disappearances convince the authorities that the threat is real. Some believe it is a French-Canadian folk legend come to life, but it turns out to be an extraterrestrial giant bird composed of anti-matter whose disregard for human life and architecture threatens the world...

Fantasy / Horror / Sci-Fi

The Shawshank Redemption 4K Blu-ray Movie  

4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Warner Bros. | 1994 | 142 min | Rated R | Sep 14, 2021 | Randy Miller III

Framed for the double murder of his wife and her lover, banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting skills to work for an amoral warden. During his tenure in prison, Dufresne becomes admired by the other inmates, ultimately befriending another prisoner named Red during the process.

Crime / Drama / Melodrama / Period

Johnny Guitar Blu-ray Movie    

Limited Edition | Masters of Cinema

Eureka Entertainment | 1954 | 110 min | Rated BBFC: PG | Sep 20, 2021 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

Vienna has built a saloon outside of town, and she hopes to build her own town once the railroad is put through, but the townsfolk want her gone.

Western

Evil Dead Trap Blu-ray Movie  

Shiryô no wana

Unearthed Films | 1988 | 102 min | Not rated | Aug 24, 2021 | Jeffrey Kauffman

A TV station employee takes a camera crew out to an abandoned factory to investigate a purported snuff film that was made there, as she gets closer to the truth, she and her friends are subjected to a brutal nightmare.

Horror / Foreign

L' amour Braque Blu-ray Movie  

Mad Love

Kino Lorber | 1985 | 105 min | Not rated | Jul 27, 2021 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

A bank robber tries to return his girl, but crazy way of life coupled with insane company make the case only worse.

Drama / Romance / Foreign

The Gateway Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Lionsgate Films | 2021 | 91 min | Rated R | Sep 07, 2021 | Jeffrey Kauffman

A social worker assigned to the care of the daughter of a single mother intervenes when the dad returns from prison and lures them into a life of crime.

Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller

Great White Blu-ray Movie  

RLJ Entertainment | 2021 | 100 min | Not rated | Sep 07, 2021 | Randy Miller III

A fun filled flight to a remote atoll turns into a nightmare for five passengers when their seaplane is destroyed in a freak accident and they are trapped on a raft, 100 miles from shore with man-eating sharks lurking beneath the surface.

Horror / Thriller / Foreign

The Shakedown Blu-ray Movie    

Masters of Cinema

Eureka Entertainment | 1929 | 70 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Dr. Svet Atanasov

No synopsis for this title.

Action / Comedy / Crime / Sport